May 17, 2007 / Obituaries

HOLDEN - John J. Checheta, 52, of Walnut Street, died Saturday, May 12, 2007 at home after an illness. He leaves his wife of 25 years, Deborah A. (Bartlett) Checheta of Holden; two sons, Andrew J. and Benjamin A. More...

RUTLAND - David M. Daigle, 46, of Rutland, died unexpectedly at home on Saturday, May 12, 2007. He leaves his wife and childhood sweetheart, Nancy (McKeon) Daigle; a son, Nicholas, 13; his father, Richard W. More...

RUTLAND - Ruth E. (Walker) Davis, 83, of 310 Main St., died Monday, May 7, 2007 in St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester. Her husband of 55 years, Howard E. Davis, died in 2004. She leaves two sons, Gary A. Davis of Rockaway, N.J. and Glenn H. More...

HOLDEN - Irma Eileen (Henry) Goodrich, 103, of 328 Malden St., died in the home of her daughter and son-in-law on Saturday, May 5, 2007. Her husband of 56 years, Cecil Davison Goodrich, died in December 1979. More...

HOLDEN - Elizabeth (Wondoloski) Grogan, 87, of Meadow Wood Drive, Holden, died Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at home after an illness. Her husband of 48 years, Joseph E. Grogan, Jr., died in 1990. She leaves three sons, Michael A. More...

RUTLAND - Arthur Kortes, 89, of Rutland, died Wednesday, May 9, 2007, in St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, after an illness. His wife of 63 years, Matilda G. (Zemaitis) Kortes, died in 2002. He leaves his son, Richard A. More...

HOLDEN - Dorothy "Daba" L. (Cattermole) Porter, 86, of Holden, died Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at her daughter's home in North Reading. She was born in Newton, the daughter of Lester G. and Ethel L. (Stringham) Cattermole. More...

PRINCETON - Hettie Sprague Beth, 95, died Saturday May 12, 2007 at Washburn House, Worcester, where she had lived since 2004. Prior to that she had lived with her daughter's family in Princeton since 1997. Her husband, Richard A. More...